Jarrett J. Krosoczka : Why lunch ladies are heroes

TED 2014

Jarrett J. Krosoczka : Why lunch ladies are heroes (transcript)

Summary

Unfortunately, Japanese school lunch system is different. In Japan, although lunch ladies cook for students in the school kitchen, there are no lunch ladies when students eat lunch in the classroom.

Students have to prepare themselves after lunch ladies cook. Students don't want to fall in line with their lunch tray if the student servers are bullies and some servers don't serve some students. That’s the time bullying happens.

Some students can’t sometimes eat lunch because of bullying and bad students often say that lunch is not delicious.

I think that firstly, at home, children have to learn that eating gratefully and saying thank you are very important.

The speaker is a writer for children’s book. He tells us that thank you can change both lives of the person who receives it and who expresses it by using his book which is Lunch Lady graphic novel series of comics. On it, it makes us notice what lunch ladies do is important and they're heroes. We should not forget school lunch ladies who are feeding our children every single day.

Words in this story
likeness / portrait, the fact or quality of being alike; resemblance.
validate /verb/ check or prove the validity or accuracy of (something).
bully /noun/ a person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker.